Re: Near miss at Victoria (London)

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Tezza wrote:

> "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> lS866.170$Ll4.8153@ozemail.com.au">news:lS866.170$Ll4.8153@ozemail.com.au...
> > In Sydney (and elsewhere) I thought the "air gap" was the space between the
> > two sets of overhead at an overhead anchorage/transition point on main
> lines,
> > The other type of section was initially provided by "continuous-feed
> > wood-break section insulators" (the diamond shaped overhead arrangements).
>
> The air-gap and section insulators are the same thing.

Whilst the driver's vocabulary puts them all down as the same thing, they are
not.

Air Gaps are where one wire ends and another starts.

Section Insulators are the big spiders holding the contact wire together. :)


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David Johnson
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